Then again, as those who suffer from it know, intractable depression creates a planet all its own, largely impermeable to influence from others except as shadow presences, urging you to come out and rejoin the world, take in a movie,… — Daphne Merkin Copy Share Image
My mother is the source of my unease in the world and thus the only person who can make me feel at home in the world. — Daphne Merkin Copy Share Image
It might pay to be resilient, if this was all being vulnerable and skinless got you. People didn’t stop and cluck over damage done… — Daphne Merkin Copy Share Image
“Spring and Fall” …cannot be said to be about depression - but of course, to someone who is depressed, everything is about depression. …For… — Daphne Merkin Copy Share Image
“It was one thing to be depressed in your twenties or thirties, when the aspect of youth gave it an undeniable poignancy, a certain… — Daphne Merkin Copy Share Image
Much as I try to disguise myself, there is never a time when I'm not aware of being overweight. — Daphne Merkin Copy Share Image
I think the experience of depression that I most think remains true throughout the years is it's very isolating. That to me is its… — Daphne Merkin Copy Share Image
Then again, as those who suffer from it know, intractable depression creates a planet all its own, largely impermeable to influence from others except… — Daphne Merkin Copy Share Image
Naturally, our own irrational demands strike us as having the force of needs, while other people's needs strike us as capricious indulgences. — Daphne Merkin Copy Share Image
Everyone lies about sex, more or less, to themselves if not to others, to others if not to themselves, exaggerating its importance or minimizing… — Daphne Merkin Copy Share Image
How much simpler it would be all around if you could put your mind in a cast, like a broken ankle, and elicit murmurings… — Daphne Merkin Copy Share Image
There's something stubborn about families, unhappy ones in particular: they outlive themselves, and then they live on. — Daphne Merkin Copy Share Image
I always look to people and think whether they seem well-loved or not well-loved. That's one way I walk through life. Do they have… — Daphne Merkin Copy Share Image
No bill of sexual rights can hold its own against the lawless, untamable landscape of the erotic imagination. — Daphne Merkin Copy Share Image
